Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I think if you 've got the creativity to write in the first place , you just need to change , not so much the instrument , but maybe change the tuning or the pitch . |
| 2 | Do not allow the horse to wander into the first fence . |
| 3 | He will now begin the physically and mentally painful process of taking male hormones to establish for the first time his masculinity . |
| 4 | It can be useful practice to read through the first sentences of paragraphs which make up a published essay , to see how much work — of summary and of signposting — is being done by these " topic sentences " . |
| 5 | For a £1 ‘ Each Way ’ bet , you stake £2. £1 of this goes on the same horse to win and the other £1 goes on the same horse to finish in the first three or four places , depending on how many runners there are in the race . |
| 6 | WHILE expensively-assembled Blackburn and Derby faltered in the Second Division promotion race , Charlton , who have no home or money to spend on players , continued their unlikely attempt to return to the First Division with a 2–1 win at FA Cup finalists Sunderland , writes Christopher Davies . |
| 7 | In deciding which combinations to take after the first year of study , applicants should be aware of the entry requirements for both subjects . |
| 8 | Good arrangements and an eye for detail can only be achieved with practice , so it may help to have a few guidelines to follow in the first place , if only to act as a spring board for producing interesting and unusual ideas of your own . |
| 9 | ‘ I know it 's going to be a hard year and we 've still got a lot of work to do before the first European GP . |
| 10 | Ultimately the test to be applied is that of the magistrates , and they may also take into account such factors as the likelihood that disorder might ensue as a result of what the defendants were doing , and the reasons prompting the constable to intervene in the first place . |
| 11 | In his resignation letter Garrett reiterated his ignorance of what had occurred , but accepted " full responsibility " for the Navy 's response and for the " leadership failure " which had allowed " the egregious conduct at Tailhook to occur in the first place " . |
| 12 | First , it failed to take account of the fact that British industry at the time was undergoing traumatic upheavals and that the impact of this upon firms had to be recognized if the need to decentralize in the first place was to be understood . |
| 13 | Two days to go before the first home game of the season . |
| 14 | Even Tan 's timing of the mysterious opening arpeggio gives warming of the drama to come in the first movement . |
| 15 | It is sufficient for our purposes to elaborate upon the first two categories . |
| 16 | She feels that the experience of being a childminder helped her to get the job and certainly gave her the confidence to apply in the first place . |
| 17 | ELDERLY council tenants living in easily-accessible housing will gain the right to buy for the first time , under a government amendment to be tabled in the House of Lords on Monday . |
| 18 | But it is going to be necessary because , by the time the later subjects come on stream , there will certainly be a need to look at the first ones again , such as maths and science . |
| 19 | He is leading an English team to compete in the first ever Irish staging of the Jack Charlton Trout Cup — an event which will take place at a lake near Bantry in County Cork on March 29 and 30 . |
| 20 | Senate set up a working party under Professor Furmston , Council asked consultants Coopers & Lybrand Deloitte to look at the matter , convocation set up an ad hoc working group to respond to the first two reports , and the Vice-Chancellor produced a report for Council which drew together the common threads in all three . |
| 21 | Taking a clearance from Nilsson , Sheridan found Palmer , whose centre left Williams to snap in the first goal from close range . |
| 22 | The Shanghai stock exchange was reported by the Financial Times of Oct. 23 to have gained approval to offer for the first time to foreign investors shares worth $35,000,000-50,000,000 in the state-owned Shanghai Vacuum , the biggest quoted company on the exchange . |
| 23 | LEEDS United 's record buy David Rocastle last night refused to lose heart over his failure to break into the first team at Elland Road . |
| 24 | In addition , there was a strong tendency for the remaining pauses to occur in the first half of a clause rather than the second half . |
| 25 | The overall increase in referral rates may seem disappointing to those who hoped that fundholding would provide a mechanism for reducing the demand for specialist care , but it was probably unrealistic to expect a shift to occur in the first year of the scheme . |
| 26 | The proposal is for employers ' contributions to begin on the first pound of earnings . |
| 27 | But Greenford was in Middlesex and many was the night I spent in the pissing rain having walked to Acton Town station to wait for the first train home in the morning . |
| 28 | Twiceover Micky will be there , for I know he likes it , leaving it until tomorrow night to preside over the first night of The Hamburg Ballet , one of the great ballet companies of the world , which he has sold his soul and what else only his God knows to cajole to Belfast , its first-ever visit to these islands . |
| 29 | Not only did many teachers in many schools meet in library committees to discuss for the first time their common interests and sometimes contrasting perspectives with other members of subject departments across the school ; they also , for the first time , were forced to consider seriously the pedagogy implied by their present use or misuse of the resources already on offer or their failure to use them . |
| 30 | EVERY YEAR the British Film Institute issues a package of British short films by up-and-coming movie-makers , giving you a chance to read for the first time the credits you 'll be seeing on Channel 4 in the next couple of years . |